In Los Angeles for a week, a few things to report:
weather is great but LA itself is falling to pieces. Filthy, buildings are crumbling down and the homeless population out of control. Obviously it depends where you go through - Beverley Hills and the usual places still look good but the poorer areas / centre have really deteriorated since a few years back.
Recall is definitely yesterday's news. Everyone has forgotten about it and, while it was good for Larry Elder, I don't think it was great for the Republican GOP although it may have helped its case in the inland counties and the Recall "Yes" vote of near 38% is higher than Trump's vote. Newsom is certainly not acting as though he needs to change his behaviour (a nd why should he).
One piece of anecdata - my sister-in-law who is a Bernie supporter shocked us by saying that Biden's a one-term President and that Trump is going to get back in 2024. She brought up specifically the Haitian refugee surge on the Texas border. She would never vote for Trump but she thinks the Administration is running out of steam.
Biden's definitely a one term President. In fact, I suspect he may well be a 0.6 term President.
So should Boris be as PM.
Well whether we count a term as a full five years, or the average parliament being more like 4 (probably 3.75 or something like that), he must be close to that 0.6.
Indeed and its time for Truss or Sunak to replace him. He's lost his nerve.
But Mr J lost his nerve long ago, over last Christmas as well. Whether one believed in more or less control over covid, he screwed the pooch (metaphorically, I hasten to add).
UK visa quotas apply to workers worldwide not just the EU
And the system being applied is exactly as planned post brexit
Freedom of movement holding down wages gone, and a visa system with minimum wages of £25,600 and only for skilled jobs benefitting the economy now is place
This is the brexit dividend
Come now, Big G, I don't believe you really believe that. The entirety of Brexit post-2016 has been presented as a movement against immigration *in principle*. Independence, self-sufficiency, autonomy, taking back control of borders.
I absolutely believe that and the legislation has passed HOC implementing the new visa quota system
Big spike in energy prices. Growing shortages in production and distribution of food. A threat to Christmas.
This is the Brexit dividend.
You know that is an exaggeration and you are better than that
Not sure i agree with the premise its all snapchat fault, but there is a serious.problem that is getting worse.
OMG.
I am genuinely torn as to whether that should be read by all my year 8s as part of the unit on knife crime and its many appalling dangers, or whether it’s too graphic for them.
In Los Angeles for a week, a few things to report:
weather is great but LA itself is falling to pieces. Filthy, buildings are crumbling down and the homeless population out of control. Obviously it depends where you go through - Beverley Hills and the usual places still look good but the poorer areas / centre have really deteriorated since a few years back.
Recall is definitely yesterday's news. Everyone has forgotten about it and, while it was good for Larry Elder, I don't think it was great for the Republican GOP although it may have helped its case in the inland counties and the Recall "Yes" vote of near 38% is higher than Trump's vote. Newsom is certainly not acting as though he needs to change his behaviour (a nd why should he).
One piece of anecdata - my sister-in-law who is a Bernie supporter shocked us by saying that Biden's a one-term President and that Trump is going to get back in 2024. She brought up specifically the Haitian refugee surge on the Texas border. She would never vote for Trump but she thinks the Administration is running out of steam.
Biden's definitely a one term President. In fact, I suspect he may well be a 0.6 term President.
That's midsummer 2023. Do you know something not in the public domain?
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
Thanks Scott
Pye Green petrol station was down to two pumps and a long queue for them when I came past, which is annoying from a personal as I wanted to refuel (like normal on a Friday night after a week’s driving).
UK visa quotas apply to workers worldwide not just the EU
And the system being applied is exactly as planned post brexit
Freedom of movement holding down wages gone, and a visa system with minimum wages of £25,600 and only for skilled jobs benefitting the economy now is place
This is the brexit dividend
Come now, Big G, I don't believe you really believe that. The entirety of Brexit post-2016 has been presented as a movement against immigration *in principle*.
No that's not true, its been about uncontrolled immigration. Allowing it in controlled is perfectly compatible.
Its just not necessary since pay rates haven't been done properly.
It is incredible that Remainers seek to portray the Leave idea of controlled immigration as being some kind of hatred of foreigners and zero tolerance of any non Brit doing a job. We had immigration before 2004, but we didn't have the ridiculous policy of millions of people from poor countries being exploited by rich bosses to undercut the British Labour market - what we have now, outsourcing when necessary, rather than a free for all, is what I voted for
I think Remain obsessives have just convinced themselves that their most extreme mischaracterisation of what a Leave voter thinks, is actually the truth
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
I take it you haven't been out today, people are queueing, successfully I might add, for fuel for a mere 20 minutes at the remaining 8,284.
I did post late afternoon that I had been into Asda this pm and there was a modest queue, also a large Asda tanker was on the forecast
What is forecast often diverges from what eventuates. Also, it may have been an inflatable potemkin tanker, like the D Day decoys.
FWIW my landlady's cleaner says that she had to queue for 45 minutes for petrol today - presumably just people reacting to the headlines and, as Mike said on the last thread, rationally panic-buying because everyone else will. People honking and swearing at assistants, as though that would help. What's happened to British sang froid?
UK visa quotas apply to workers worldwide not just the EU
And the system being applied is exactly as planned post brexit
Freedom of movement holding down wages gone, and a visa system with minimum wages of £25,600 and only for skilled jobs benefitting the economy now is place
This is the brexit dividend
Come now, Big G, I don't believe you really believe that. The entirety of Brexit post-2016 has been presented as a movement against immigration *in principle*.
No that's not true, its been about uncontrolled immigration. Allowing it in controlled is perfectly compatible.
Its just not necessary since pay rates haven't been done properly.
Well, the Daily Mail litmus test commenters are already fuming. "If we're going to let in EU drivers back in what was Brexit for ? " is one of the choice comments I saw this afternoon.
Meanwhile the Telegraph comments are calling for State control of the Press. Unpatriotic to report bad news.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
I take it you haven't been out today, people are queueing, successfully I might add, for fuel for a mere 20 minutes at the remaining 8,284.
I did post late afternoon that I had been into Asda this pm and there was a modest queue, also a large Asda tanker was on the forecast
What is forecast often diverges from what eventuates. Also, it may have been an inflatable potemkin tanker, like the D Day decoys.
FWIW my landlady's cleaner says that she had to queue for 45 minutes for petrol today - presumably just people reacting to the headlines and, as Mike said on the last thread, rationally panic-buying because everyone else will. People honking and swearing at assistants, as though that would help. What's happened to British sang froid?
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
Thanks Scott
Pye Green petrol station was down to two pumps and a long queue for them when I came past, which is annoying from a personal as I wanted to refuel (like normal on a Friday night after a week’s driving).
Thanks, national newspapers.
It is said that most languages do not have a word for "smug." Even English does not have a word for the "filled up at 8.30 a.m. and halfway through my second martini" feeling overwhelming me now.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
I take it you haven't been out today, people are queueing, successfully I might add, for fuel for a mere 20 minutes at the remaining 8,284.
I did post late afternoon that I had been into Asda this pm and there was a modest queue, also a large Asda tanker was on the forecast
What is forecast often diverges from what eventuates. Also, it may have been an inflatable potemkin tanker, like the D Day decoys.
FWIW my landlady's cleaner says that she had to queue for 45 minutes for petrol today - presumably just people reacting to the headlines and, as Mike said on the last thread, rationally panic-buying because everyone else will. People honking and swearing at assistants, as though that would help. What's happened to British sang froid?
UK visa quotas apply to workers worldwide not just the EU
And the system being applied is exactly as planned post brexit
Freedom of movement holding down wages gone, and a visa system with minimum wages of £25,600 and only for skilled jobs benefitting the economy now is place
This is the brexit dividend
Come now, Big G, I don't believe you really believe that. The entirety of Brexit post-2016 has been presented as a movement against immigration *in principle*.
No that's not true, its been about uncontrolled immigration. Allowing it in controlled is perfectly compatible.
Its just not necessary since pay rates haven't been done properly.
It is incredible that Remainers seek to portray the Leave idea of controlled immigration as being some kind of hatred of foreigners and zero tolerance of any non Brit doing a job. We had immigration before 2004, but we didn't have the ridiculous policy of millions of people from poor countries being exploited by rich bosses to undercut the British Labour market - what we have now, outsourcing when necessary, rather than a free for all, is what I voted for
I think Remain obsessives have just convinced themselves that their most extreme mischaracterisation of what a Leave voter thinks, is actually the truth
Says the man who claims all Remainers just want cheap staff.
UK visa quotas apply to workers worldwide not just the EU
And the system being applied is exactly as planned post brexit
Freedom of movement holding down wages gone, and a visa system with minimum wages of £25,600 and only for skilled jobs benefitting the economy now is place
This is the brexit dividend
Come now, Big G, I don't believe you really believe that. The entirety of Brexit post-2016 has been presented as a movement against immigration *in principle*.
No that's not true, its been about uncontrolled immigration. Allowing it in controlled is perfectly compatible.
Its just not necessary since pay rates haven't been done properly.
It is incredible that Remainers seek to portray the Leave idea of controlled immigration as being some kind of hatred of foreigners and zero tolerance of any non Brit doing a job. We had immigration before 2004, but we didn't have the ridiculous policy of millions of people from poor countries being exploited by rich bosses to undercut the British Labour market - what we have now, outsourcing when necessary, rather than a free for all, is what I voted for
I think Remain obsessives have just convinced themselves that their most extreme mischaracterisation of what a Leave voter thinks, is actually the truth
Says the man who claims all Remainers just want cheap staff.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
Thanks Scott
Pye Green petrol station was down to two pumps and a long queue for them when I came past, which is annoying from a personal as I wanted to refuel (like normal on a Friday night after a week’s driving).
Thanks, national newspapers.
It is said that most languages do not have a word for "smug." Even English does not have a word for the "filled up at 8.30 a.m. and halfway through my second martini" feeling overwhelming me now.
Sorry, but there it is.
Does it have a word for ‘was stuck in traffic in roadworks at 8.30 wondering when you would actually get into the city centre where the school is?’
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
Thanks Scott
Pye Green petrol station was down to two pumps and a long queue for them when I came past, which is annoying from a personal as I wanted to refuel (like normal on a Friday night after a week’s driving).
Thanks, national newspapers.
It is said that most languages do not have a word for "smug." Even English does not have a word for the "filled up at 8.30 a.m. and halfway through my second martini" feeling overwhelming me now.
Sorry, but there it is.
Does it have a word for ‘was stuck in traffic in roadworks at 8.30 wondering when you would actually get into the city centre where the school is?’
Like I said, I'm halfway through my second martini by that time in the morning, and too loaded to care. You should try it.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
Thanks Scott
Pye Green petrol station was down to two pumps and a long queue for them when I came past, which is annoying from a personal as I wanted to refuel (like normal on a Friday night after a week’s driving).
Thanks, national newspapers.
It is said that most languages do not have a word for "smug." Even English does not have a word for the "filled up at 8.30 a.m. and halfway through my second martini" feeling overwhelming me now.
Sorry, but there it is.
Does it have a word for ‘was stuck in traffic in roadworks at 8.30 wondering when you would actually get into the city centre where the school is?’
Like I said, I'm halfway through my second martini by that time in the morning, and too loaded to care. You should try it.
@michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
UK visa quotas apply to workers worldwide not just the EU
And the system being applied is exactly as planned post brexit
Freedom of movement holding down wages gone, and a visa system with minimum wages of £25,600 and only for skilled jobs benefitting the economy now is place
This is the brexit dividend
Come now, Big G, I don't believe you really believe that. The entirety of Brexit post-2016 has been presented as a movement against immigration *in principle*.
No that's not true, its been about uncontrolled immigration. Allowing it in controlled is perfectly compatible.
Its just not necessary since pay rates haven't been done properly.
They should all go on strike Red Philo. All out lads, the management haven't got nice enough biscuits.
I don't advocate that whatsoever.
If they don't want to do the jobs but others do then management should replace the people who don't want to do the jobs with others that do.
If not enough want to do the job then management aren't giving good enough terms and conditions to fill the roles. That's their problem, they should fix it.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
I take it you haven't been out today, people are queueing, successfully I might add, for fuel for a mere 20 minutes at the remaining 8,284.
I did post late afternoon that I had been into Asda this pm and there was a modest queue, also a large Asda tanker was on the forecast
What is forecast often diverges from what eventuates. Also, it may have been an inflatable potemkin tanker, like the D Day decoys.
FWIW my landlady's cleaner says that she had to queue for 45 minutes for petrol today - presumably just people reacting to the headlines and, as Mike said on the last thread, rationally panic-buying because everyone else will. People honking and swearing at assistants, as though that would help. What's happened to British sang froid?
All French terms were kicked out after Brexit.
Donnez-moi un break!
Apologies if minor incontinence results from this HILARIOUS quip.
@michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
Mandelson to blame, I'm pretty sure. He should have just kept it to the change of the MP deselection process, as Southam alluded to earlier, not tried to change the entire voting system back again too, as a misguided Clause4-type symbol, too.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
I take it you haven't been out today, people are queueing, successfully I might add, for fuel for a mere 20 minutes at the remaining 8,284.
I did post late afternoon that I had been into Asda this pm and there was a modest queue, also a large Asda tanker was on the forecast
What is forecast often diverges from what eventuates. Also, it may have been an inflatable potemkin tanker, like the D Day decoys.
FWIW my landlady's cleaner says that she had to queue for 45 minutes for petrol today - presumably just people reacting to the headlines and, as Mike said on the last thread, rationally panic-buying because everyone else will. People honking and swearing at assistants, as though that would help. What's happened to British sang froid?
All French terms were kicked out after Brexit.
Donnez-moi un break!
Apologies if minor incontinence results from this HILARIOUS quip.
@michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
Mandelson to blame, I'm pretty sure. He should have just kept it to the change of the MP deselection process, as Southam alluded to, not tried to change the entire voting system back as a misguided Clause4-type symbol, as well.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
I take it you haven't been out today, people are queueing, successfully I might add, for fuel for a mere 20 minutes at the remaining 8,284.
I did post late afternoon that I had been into Asda this pm and there was a modest queue, also a large Asda tanker was on the forecast
What is forecast often diverges from what eventuates. Also, it may have been an inflatable potemkin tanker, like the D Day decoys.
FWIW my landlady's cleaner says that she had to queue for 45 minutes for petrol today - presumably just people reacting to the headlines and, as Mike said on the last thread, rationally panic-buying because everyone else will. People honking and swearing at assistants, as though that would help. What's happened to British sang froid?
All French terms were kicked out after Brexit.
Donnez-moi un break!
Apologies if minor incontinence results from this HILARIOUS quip.
@michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
Mandelson to blame, I'm pretty sure. He should have just kept it to the change of the MP deselection process, as Southam alluded to, not tried to change the entire voting system back as a misguided Clause4-type symbol, as well.
A solution in search of a problem, methinks.
Yup ; this was the same phrase that came to mind and I used earlier about it, too.
PM overrules Home Sec and Transport Sec to allow in foreign lorry drivers to help fill the shortage despite Grant Shapps saying being out of the EU was helping the situation https://bit.ly/2XLOe3K
@michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
Mandelson to blame, I'm pretty sure. He should have just kept it to the change of the MP deselection process, as Southam alluded to, not tried to change the entire voting system back as a misguided Clause4-type symbol, as well.
A solution in search of a problem, methinks.
Yup ; this was the. same phrase that came to mind and I used earlier about it, too.
Great minds. Or fools never differ. But I think not.
Not sure i agree with the premise its all snapchat fault, but there is a serious.problem that is getting worse.
OMG.
I just feel grateful I am not living in London with teenage children.
That article lacks any kind of evidence about teenage murder rates in general, and about the prevalence of SnapChat (or other social media) in driving the murders that did happen.
It's a great story, but it may simply be completely inaccurate. It may be that 13 year olds on SnapChat are less likely to commit murders than their peers. We just don't know, because it's a piece of journalism that sets out to tell a story.
And, likely, the author had decided the conclusion and went looking for supporting evidence. (Not unlike certain posters.)
PM overrules Home Sec and Transport Sec to allow in foreign lorry drivers to help fill the shortage despite Grant Shapps saying being out of the EU was helping the situation https://bit.ly/2XLOe3K
Grant Shapps always was an imbecile. Look at his pretend hack when he said he’d been a lifelong Lib Dem now voting Tory.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
Thanks Scott
Pye Green petrol station was down to two pumps and a long queue for them when I came past, which is annoying from a personal as I wanted to refuel (like normal on a Friday night after a week’s driving).
Thanks, national newspapers.
It is said that most languages do not have a word for "smug." Even English does not have a word for the "filled up at 8.30 a.m. and halfway through my second martini" feeling overwhelming me now.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
Thanks Scott
Pye Green petrol station was down to two pumps and a long queue for them when I came past, which is annoying from a personal as I wanted to refuel (like normal on a Friday night after a week’s driving).
Thanks, national newspapers.
It is said that most languages do not have a word for "smug." Even English does not have a word for the "filled up at 8.30 a.m. and halfway through my second martini" feeling overwhelming me now.
PM overrules Home Sec and Transport Sec to allow in foreign lorry drivers to help fill the shortage despite Grant Shapps saying being out of the EU was helping the situation https://bit.ly/2XLOe3K
Bad decision. Employers should increase pay to the market rate to fill the vacancies.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
I take it you haven't been out today, people are queueing, successfully I might add, for fuel for a mere 20 minutes at the remaining 8,284.
I did post late afternoon that I had been into Asda this pm and there was a modest queue, also a large Asda tanker was on the forecast
What is forecast often diverges from what eventuates. Also, it may have been an inflatable potemkin tanker, like the D Day decoys.
FWIW my landlady's cleaner says that she had to queue for 45 minutes for petrol today - presumably just people reacting to the headlines and, as Mike said on the last thread, rationally panic-buying because everyone else will. People honking and swearing at assistants, as though that would help. What's happened to British sang froid?
All French terms were kicked out after Brexit.
Donnez-moi un break!
Apologies if minor incontinence results from this HILARIOUS quip.
Feeling very smug today in my EV, did a 300 mile journey, one short stop for a splash and dash charge, and watched the queues at the petrol stations. Not often the EV range anxiety gets the better of the ICE guys.
Last weeks not a crisis, crises, empty shelves due to insufficient supermarket deliveries and Wholesale Gas prices due to insufficient planning of gas supply.
Todays not a crisis, crisis no petrol for Cabinet Ministers due to insufficient deliveries of petrol
Tomorrows not a crisis, Crisis. No water due to insufficient water purification chemical deliveries.
Tories 7 point lead
Presumably more Lab leads on the cards despite the useless nonentity in charge of that Party
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
Thanks Scott
Pye Green petrol station was down to two pumps and a long queue for them when I came past, which is annoying from a personal as I wanted to refuel (like normal on a Friday night after a week’s driving).
Thanks, national newspapers.
It is said that most languages do not have a word for "smug." Even English does not have a word for the "filled up at 8.30 a.m. and halfway through my second martini" feeling overwhelming me now.
PM overrules Home Sec and Transport Sec to allow in foreign lorry drivers to help fill the shortage despite Grant Shapps saying being out of the EU was helping the situation https://bit.ly/2XLOe3K
Bad decision. Employers should increase pay to the market rate to fill the vacancies.
Maybe they should have started doing that in 2018 when the Europe wide shortage was being discussed here
"In a report released this week, European Road Freight Transport 2018, the supply chain analyst shows that in just six countries – the UK, Germany, France, Denmark Sweden and Norway – the shortage of drivers adds up to 127,500.
The UK leads the way with a shortage of 52,000 drivers, but is closely followed by Germany at 45,000 vacancies – with predictions that this could increase by a staggering 28,000 each year.
The report says: “In Germany, the DSLV transport union reports that in the next 15 years, two-thirds of drivers will retire. Germany is facing a shortage of 45,000 truck drivers, with around 30,000 leaving the profession every year. This compares with only 2,000 people receiving truck-driving qualifications each year.”
France has a shortage of 20,000 drivers, while road freight associations in Sweden, Denmark and Norway report shortages of 5,000, 2,500 and 3,000, respectively.
This gap in the labour market has been partly filled by an influx of East Europeans, but the report warns there is a limit as to how much this will ease the driver shortage.
One problem is the increasing appetite among global manufacturers to site production facilities in central and eastern Europe, which has provided an alternative source of jobs for many would-be drivers."
PM overrules Home Sec and Transport Sec to allow in foreign lorry drivers to help fill the shortage despite Grant Shapps saying being out of the EU was helping the situation https://bit.ly/2XLOe3K
Grant Shapps always was an imbecile. Look at his pretend hack when he said he’d been a lifelong Lib Dem now voting Tory.
PM overrules Home Sec and Transport Sec to allow in foreign lorry drivers to help fill the shortage despite Grant Shapps saying being out of the EU was helping the situation https://bit.ly/2XLOe3K
Bad decision. Employers should increase pay to the market rate to fill the vacancies.
Is that a Conservative government? Or is it not? It seems to be bringing in blacklegs to bust the locals' deserved campaigning for more pay? I'm really getting confused.
F**king useless nonentity. Bring on a leadership challenge
Michael Savage @michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
Not sure i agree with the premise its all snapchat fault, but there is a serious.problem that is getting worse.
OMG.
I just feel grateful I am not living in London with teenage children.
That article lacks any kind of evidence about teenage murder rates in general, and about the prevalence of SnapChat (or other social media) in driving the murders that did happen.
It's a great story, but it may simply be completely inaccurate. It may be that 13 year olds on SnapChat are less likely to commit murders than their peers. We just don't know, because it's a piece of journalism that sets out to tell a story.
And, likely, the author had decided the conclusion and went looking for supporting evidence. (Not unlike certain posters.)
Definitely Snapchat. Definitely not the 70% cut in funding for youth services in the decade after 2010.
PM overrules Home Sec and Transport Sec to allow in foreign lorry drivers to help fill the shortage despite Grant Shapps saying being out of the EU was helping the situation https://bit.ly/2XLOe3K
Bad decision. Employers should increase pay to the market rate to fill the vacancies.
Is that a Conservative government? Or is it not? It seems to be bringing in blacklegs to bust the locals' deserved campaigning for more pay? I'm really getting confused.
One thing is for sure. We can’t have the lower orders getting paid too much. Something, anything must be done.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
Thanks Scott
Pye Green petrol station was down to two pumps and a long queue for them when I came past, which is annoying from a personal as I wanted to refuel (like normal on a Friday night after a week’s driving).
Thanks, national newspapers.
It is said that most languages do not have a word for "smug." Even English does not have a word for the "filled up at 8.30 a.m. and halfway through my second martini" feeling overwhelming me now.
F**king useless nonentity. Bring on a leadership challenge
Michael Savage @michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
PM overrules Home Sec and Transport Sec to allow in foreign lorry drivers to help fill the shortage despite Grant Shapps saying being out of the EU was helping the situation https://bit.ly/2XLOe3K
Bad decision. Employers should increase pay to the market rate to fill the vacancies.
Is that a Conservative government? Or is it not? It seems to be bringing in blacklegs to bust the locals' deserved campaigning for more pay? I'm really getting confused.
One thing is for sure. We can’t have the lower orders getting paid too much. Something, anything must be done.
And yet, how will that look to White Van and DAF Tractor Person in the Red Wall?
Momentum issues statement "celebrating" Starmer's delay to rule change vote
They describe TULO meeting today as "disastrous" and claim his "attack on democracy is floundering"
It is fair to say this is not the lead up to conference Starmer wanted: unions furious, left buoyant
Union source emphasises it's "not over til it's over", but seems Starmer faces humiliation over electoral college reforms if he brings to vote
Trade Union & Labour Party Liaison Organisation (TULO) meeting was "BAD": "nobody" defended Starmer, even moderate unions
It's reported that Starmer's TULO meeting was 'a shitshow'. Saddiq Khan is against rule change. It looks as if "Rayner's read the room. I always thought that, when the tide turned against Starmer, Rayner would bury him".
China bans Facebook → Creates Weibo China bans Youtube → Creates Youku China bans Google → Creates Baidu China bans Whatsapp → Creates WeChat China bans Bitcoin → Creates e-yuan
Momentum issues statement "celebrating" Starmer's delay to rule change vote
They describe TULO meeting today as "disastrous" and claim his "attack on democracy is floundering"
It is fair to say this is not the lead up to conference Starmer wanted: unions furious, left buoyant
Union source emphasises it's "not over til it's over", but seems Starmer faces humiliation over electoral college reforms if he brings to vote
Trade Union & Labour Party Liaison Organisation (TULO) meeting was "BAD": "nobody" defended Starmer, even moderate unions
It's reported that Starmer's TULO meeting was 'a shitshow'. Saddiq Khan is against rule change. It looks as if "Rayner's read the room. I always thought that, when the tide turned against Starmer, Rayner would bury him".
Could this be the moment? I think he's toast".
Rayner or Streeting??
If true Labour have lost the plot and at the worse time possible
F**king useless nonentity. Bring on a leadership challenge
Michael Savage @michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
And replace him with who exactly?
Anybody would be better frankly
I despise Streeting but even he would be less useless more passionate and competent.
It is extremely unfortunate KotN will not be eligible but any change is better than having a useless nonentity in charge
Momentum issues statement "celebrating" Starmer's delay to rule change vote
They describe TULO meeting today as "disastrous" and claim his "attack on democracy is floundering"
It is fair to say this is not the lead up to conference Starmer wanted: unions furious, left buoyant
Union source emphasises it's "not over til it's over", but seems Starmer faces humiliation over electoral college reforms if he brings to vote
Trade Union & Labour Party Liaison Organisation (TULO) meeting was "BAD": "nobody" defended Starmer, even moderate unions
It's reported that Starmer's TULO meeting was 'a shitshow'. Saddiq Khan is against rule change. It looks as if "Rayner's read the room. I always thought that, when the tide turned against Starmer, Rayner would bury him".
Could this be the moment? I think he's toast".
Rayner or Streeting??
If true Labour have lost the plot and at the worse time possible
Starmer is labour's best bet for GE 24
No mate he is totally devoid of anything no charisma, no conviction, no ability to lead, no policies,no vision, no alternative, no hope.
F**king useless nonentity. Bring on a leadership challenge
Michael Savage @michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
And replace him with who exactly?
Quite.
Starmer isn't great as a leader, although he has some really good traits that will help him.
Labour will split sooner or later, and to be fair to the left it really is the moderates that are betraying the cause. However the cause is some daft c19 manifesto written by a layabout.
What Starmer needs to do is get the split done with - off goes Corbyn, off goes McDonald, and then I think it stops. No sensible Labour politician will throw themselves over the cliff. Maybe Abbot, Dawn whatever, Long-Bailey, and Burgeon.
Loved @jessphillips being honest saying on @TimesRadio she hadn’t quite read every word of the @Keir_Starmer thesis. And @UKLabour peer Helena Kennedy tells me she’d like the party leader - a fellow lawyer - “to loosen up a bit”
F**king useless nonentity. Bring on a leadership challenge
Michael Savage @michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
And replace him with who exactly?
Quite.
Starmer isn't great as a leader, although he has some really good traits that will help him.
Labour will split sooner or later, and to be fair to the left it really is the moderates that are betraying the cause. However the cause is some daft c19 manifesto written by a layabout.
What Starmer needs to do is get the split done with - off goes Corbyn, off goes McDonald, and then I think it stops. No sensible Labour politician will throw themselves over the cliff. Maybe Abbot, Dawn whatever, Long-Bailey, and Burgeon.
PS. whatever=Butler.
Ken Loach....on Starmer, Jezza and "proper Labour".
Keir Starmer is in “discussions” about whether to press ahead with radical changes to the way Labour elects its leaders, after pulling plans to put the proposals to a vote at the party’s ruling national executive committee (NEC).
The Labour leader had been expected to push the package of reforms at a meeting on Friday evening. But after he addressed sceptical union leaders on Friday afternoon, Starmer’s office said they would not be tabled.
Instead, they suggested discussions were ongoing. Trade union sources said Starmer had made an emollient speech to TULO, the group that represents the Labour-supporting unions – but that none of the unions present had backed the plans.
One source suggested Starmer had received a “mauling” for announcing the plans to drop the one-member-one vote-system to elect the party’s leader without warning earlier this week, and failing to consult unions in advance.
Starmer now faces a tough decision about whether to press ahead in the face of union opposition, water down the proposals or pull them altogether, rather than risk a humiliating defeat in Brighton, where the party’s conference will open on Saturday.
It emerged on Friday that Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, had added her voice to those in the party who oppose the idea of overshadowing conference with a wrangle over rule changes.
Rayner, the shadow secretary of state for the future of work as well as Starmer’s number two, has privately made clear she would like the conference to focus instead on attacking the government and setting out Labour’s offer to the country.
She is understood to be concerned by the timing of the changes and the principle of ditching one-member-one-vote.
There are 8,384 petrol stations in the UK with around 100 experiencing problems
Thanks Scott
Pye Green petrol station was down to two pumps and a long queue for them when I came past, which is annoying from a personal as I wanted to refuel (like normal on a Friday night after a week’s driving).
Thanks, national newspapers.
It is said that most languages do not have a word for "smug." Even English does not have a word for the "filled up at 8.30 a.m. and halfway through my second martini" feeling overwhelming me now.
Sorry, but there it is.
In Welsh, it is smyg,
pronounced "smug"
In dwarfish, it is Smaug.
They get really fired up about such people.
Don't expect me to believe that. I wasn't Beorn yesterday.
F**king useless nonentity. Bring on a leadership challenge
Michael Savage @michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
And replace him with who exactly?
Quite.
Starmer isn't great as a leader, although he has some really good traits that will help him.
Labour will split sooner or later, and to be fair to the left it really is the moderates that are betraying the cause. However the cause is some daft c19 manifesto written by a layabout.
What Starmer needs to do is get the split done with - off goes Corbyn, off goes McDonald, and then I think it stops. No sensible Labour politician will throw themselves over the cliff. Maybe Abbot, Dawn whatever, Long-Bailey, and Burgeon.
PS. whatever=Butler.
Ken Loach....on Starmer, Jezza and "proper Labour".
That poll was released a few days ago.In fact , it is not better news for Labour at all - if taken at face value. The 2019 GE in Wales was - Lab 40.9 - Con 36.1 - so a Labour lead of 4.8% has just increased to 6% - implying a swing from Con to Lab of just 0.6% and a fall in Labour's vote share. That said , Yougov significantly underestimated Labour's lead last May - and had the Tories several points too high. The figures for both Plaid and the Greens in this poll look high.
F**king useless nonentity. Bring on a leadership challenge
Michael Savage @michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
And replace him with who exactly?
Quite.
Starmer isn't great as a leader, although he has some really good traits that will help him.
Labour will split sooner or later, and to be fair to the left it really is the moderates that are betraying the cause. However the cause is some daft c19 manifesto written by a layabout.
What Starmer needs to do is get the split done with - off goes Corbyn, off goes McDonald, and then I think it stops. No sensible Labour politician will throw themselves over the cliff. Maybe Abbot, Dawn whatever, Long-Bailey, and Burgeon.
PS. whatever=Butler.
Ken Loach....on Starmer, Jezza and "proper Labour".
F**king useless nonentity. Bring on a leadership challenge
Michael Savage @michaelsavage More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
And replace him with who exactly?
Quite.
Starmer isn't great as a leader, although he has some really good traits that will help him.
Labour will split sooner or later, and to be fair to the left it really is the moderates that are betraying the cause. However the cause is some daft c19 manifesto written by a layabout.
What Starmer needs to do is get the split done with - off goes Corbyn, off goes McDonald, and then I think it stops. No sensible Labour politician will throw themselves over the cliff. Maybe Abbot, Dawn whatever, Long-Bailey, and Burgeon.
PS. whatever=Butler.
Ken Loach....on Starmer, Jezza and "proper Labour".
Momentum issues statement "celebrating" Starmer's delay to rule change vote
They describe TULO meeting today as "disastrous" and claim his "attack on democracy is floundering"
It is fair to say this is not the lead up to conference Starmer wanted: unions furious, left buoyant
Union source emphasises it's "not over til it's over", but seems Starmer faces humiliation over electoral college reforms if he brings to vote
Trade Union & Labour Party Liaison Organisation (TULO) meeting was "BAD": "nobody" defended Starmer, even moderate unions
It's reported that Starmer's TULO meeting was 'a shitshow'. Saddiq Khan is against rule change. It looks as if "Rayner's read the room. I always thought that, when the tide turned against Starmer, Rayner would bury him".
Could this be the moment? I think he's toast".
Rayner or Streeting??
If true Labour have lost the plot and at the worse time possible
Starmer is labour's best bet for GE 24
No mate he is totally devoid of anything no charisma, no conviction, no ability to lead, no policies,no vision, no alternative, no hope.
I can understand why Tories like him.
We have to accept that Starmer, even though he is moderately crap, is the best the Labour party have at the moment. I am a big fan of Ed Milliband but he's unlikely to enter any leadership fray.
Having said that, Starmer needs to up is game against this vile, incompetent, disingenuous, sleazy and bigoted Conservative Government.
The useless nonentity has picked a fight, having picked the fight he needed to win it, and badly misjudged the mood.with even the most right wing led Unions failing to support him
All wings of Party smell blood.
He is even rumoured to be preparing a joke if "oh Jeremy Corbyn" chant starts during his speech on Wednesday.
Bet that will be a side splitter.
Anyone who thinks he has any chance of ever leading Lab to victory is kidding themselves.
Genuinely riveting, both the overall theory and the detail, and the match with the biblical account. And brilliant that Nature is free to air like that.
The apparent fiasco re-leadership rule changes confirms Starmer's disastrous timing of the by elections a few months back. He is seriously lacking in 'nous' and the political antennare required of a political leader. Very little sign of a political brain.
I was passing our local (not very good, and definitely overpriced) sushi restaurant, and there was a Lamborghini Avantador parked outside with the license "SNAP CEO".
The apparent fiasco re-leadership rule changes confirms Starmer's disastrous timing of the by elections a few months back. He is seriously lacking in 'nous' and the political antennare required of a political leader. Very little sign of a political brain.
Indeed Justin you are correct.
I will add that to my useless nonentity list. Thanks
Comments
Wibbling remoaners and BJ doubters, by the power of tedious repetition I shall exorcise thee.
It’s a deeply disturbing read.
Thanks, national newspapers.
I think Remain obsessives have just convinced themselves that their most extreme mischaracterisation of what a Leave voter thinks, is actually the truth
Shame they were bowling for Warwickshire but you can’t have everything.
Sorry, but there it is.
We could have punning contests on PB all day…
More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
https://twitter.com/michaelsavage/status/1441458901522821121
If they don't want to do the jobs but others do then management should replace the people who don't want to do the jobs with others that do.
If not enough want to do the job then management aren't giving good enough terms and conditions to fill the roles. That's their problem, they should fix it.
Apologies if minor incontinence results from this HILARIOUS quip.
Or fools never differ. But I think not.
It's a great story, but it may simply be completely inaccurate. It may be that 13 year olds on SnapChat are less likely to commit murders than their peers. We just don't know, because it's a piece of journalism that sets out to tell a story.
And, likely, the author had decided the conclusion and went looking for supporting evidence. (Not unlike certain posters.)
pronounced "smug"
They get really fired up about such people.
My mate is offering a reward for a pic of someone running out of petrol whilst driving around on a panic buying mission!
Not often the EV range anxiety gets the better of the ICE guys.
Todays not a crisis, crisis no petrol for Cabinet Ministers due to insufficient deliveries of petrol
Tomorrows not a crisis, Crisis. No water due to insufficient water purification chemical deliveries.
Tories 7 point lead
Presumably more Lab leads on the cards despite the useless nonentity in charge of that Party
"In a report released this week, European Road Freight Transport 2018, the supply chain analyst shows that in just six countries – the UK, Germany, France, Denmark Sweden and Norway – the shortage of drivers adds up to 127,500.
The UK leads the way with a shortage of 52,000 drivers, but is closely followed by Germany at 45,000 vacancies – with predictions that this could increase by a staggering 28,000 each year.
The report says: “In Germany, the DSLV transport union reports that in the next 15 years, two-thirds of drivers will retire. Germany is facing a shortage of 45,000 truck drivers, with around 30,000 leaving the profession every year. This compares with only 2,000 people receiving truck-driving qualifications each year.”
France has a shortage of 20,000 drivers, while road freight associations in Sweden, Denmark and Norway report shortages of 5,000, 2,500 and 3,000, respectively.
This gap in the labour market has been partly filled by an influx of East Europeans, but the report warns there is a limit as to how much this will ease the driver shortage.
One problem is the increasing appetite among global manufacturers to site production facilities in central and eastern Europe, which has provided an alternative source of jobs for many would-be drivers."
https://www.bifa.org/news/articles/2018/dec/truck-driver-shortage-crisis-now-spreading-across-the-whole-of-europe
But as it seems to be an emergency, why not press the emergency button?
https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1440838033222242309?s=21
https://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2007/07/grant_shapps/
Michael Savage
@michaelsavage
More than one union leader has “gone for” Starmer at a key meeting tonight. Sounds pretty brutal. Row over party rules now clearly threatening to overshadow a conference he himself has talked up as key to his leadership.
And lib dems bottom
https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1441465179259260933?s=19
Something, anything must be done.
They describe TULO meeting today as "disastrous" and claim his "attack on democracy is floundering"
It is fair to say this is not the lead up to conference Starmer wanted: unions furious, left buoyant
Union source emphasises it's "not over til it's over", but seems Starmer faces humiliation over electoral college reforms if he brings to vote
Trade Union & Labour Party Liaison Organisation (TULO) meeting was "BAD": "nobody" defended Starmer, even moderate unions
It's reported that Starmer's TULO meeting was 'a shitshow'. Saddiq Khan is against rule change. It looks as if
"Rayner's read the room. I always thought that, when the tide turned against Starmer, Rayner would bury him".
Could this be the moment? I think he's toast".
Rayner or Streeting??
China bans Youtube → Creates Youku
China bans Google → Creates Baidu
China bans Whatsapp → Creates WeChat
China bans Bitcoin → Creates e-yuan
https://twitter.com/Blockworks_/status/1441335106782654475?s=19
China bans Lehman Brothers → Creates Evergrande
Starmer is labour's best bet for GE 24
I despise Streeting but even he would be less useless more passionate and competent.
It is extremely unfortunate KotN will not be eligible but any change is better than having a useless nonentity in charge
https://twitter.com/nigeltheleftist/status/1441463509401886720/photo/1
I can understand why Tories like him.
Starmer isn't great as a leader, although he has some really good traits that will help him.
Labour will split sooner or later, and to be fair to the left it really is the moderates that are betraying the cause. However the cause is some daft c19 manifesto written by a layabout.
What Starmer needs to do is get the split done with - off goes Corbyn, off goes McDonald, and then I think it stops. No sensible Labour politician will throw themselves over the cliff. Maybe Abbot, Dawn whatever, Long-Bailey, and Burgeon.
PS. whatever=Butler.
https://twitter.com/cathynewman/status/1441464733249392644?s=21
https://youtu.be/PVP6PlX_UUA
The Labour leader had been expected to push the package of reforms at a meeting on Friday evening. But after he addressed sceptical union leaders on Friday afternoon, Starmer’s office said they would not be tabled.
Instead, they suggested discussions were ongoing. Trade union sources said Starmer had made an emollient speech to TULO, the group that represents the Labour-supporting unions – but that none of the unions present had backed the plans.
One source suggested Starmer had received a “mauling” for announcing the plans to drop the one-member-one vote-system to elect the party’s leader without warning earlier this week, and failing to consult unions in advance.
Starmer now faces a tough decision about whether to press ahead in the face of union opposition, water down the proposals or pull them altogether, rather than risk a humiliating defeat in Brighton, where the party’s conference will open on Saturday.
It emerged on Friday that Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, had added her voice to those in the party who oppose the idea of overshadowing conference with a wrangle over rule changes.
Rayner, the shadow secretary of state for the future of work as well as Starmer’s number two, has privately made clear she would like the conference to focus instead on attacking the government and setting out Labour’s offer to the country.
She is understood to be concerned by the timing of the changes and the principle of ditching one-member-one-vote.
Hmmm..
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3.pdf
Having said that, Starmer needs to up is game against this vile, incompetent, disingenuous, sleazy and bigoted Conservative Government.
Scottish Leader
Welsh First Minister
London Mayor
Every Union in attendance at todays NEC
All opposed to rule change
The useless nonentity has picked a fight, having picked the fight he needed to win it, and badly misjudged the mood.with even the most right wing led Unions failing to support him
All wings of Party smell blood.
He is even rumoured to be preparing a joke if "oh Jeremy Corbyn" chant starts during his speech on Wednesday.
Bet that will be a side splitter.
Anyone who thinks he has any chance of ever leading Lab to victory is kidding themselves.
eww
Wales 19
LABLabour40.9%
CONConservative36.1%
PCPlaid Cymru9.9%
LDLiberal Democrat6.0%
BRXThe Brexit Party5.4%
GRNGreen1.0%
Poll from the GE
Lab 37 (-4)
Con 31 (-5)
Plaid 15 (+5)
Rfm 6 (+1)
Grn 5 (+4)
LDem 4 (-2)
'twas a bit naff, tbh.
I will add that to my useless nonentity list. Thanks